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What would you prefer instead? That they not hire these 50 people at all?

I'd say that my tolerance depends on the kind of project.

Does it do 3D maps? I can understand that the UX will be terrible even with a lot of progressive enhancements. Does it display text (i.e. news sites)? Then it should by all means work without scripting support, and should display images that would usually be lazy-loaded.

I am also willing to compromise on functionality. If a site offers nice, client-side filters for their 100 products, it is OK if they do not work as long as I can [Ctrl]+[F] to find products.

Another thing to consider is that most users who block sites consciously use a plugin that allows unblocking scrips based on the domain (e.g. NoScript, uBlock, uMatrix). Scripts that enable functionality should be hosted on the same TLD or a CDN. I have no mercy if your site depends on various A/B testing and ad tech scripts to work, but I will gladly allow scripts from the origin host, especially if the functionality I gain is explained well.

Parent was probably referring to closing down entire products (e.g. Google Reader).

Though this requirement is moot even in Germany, as it is impossible for you to verify such a deletion.

I think parent assumes users send their confessions and sins to people after they die instead of clearing things up beforehand or living an honest life. Says more about himself/herself than the product IMHO.

No, but you can use Chrome Store Foxified to install most Chrome extensions in Firefox.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-store-...

Of the top five results Google gives me, all are by recruitment agencies who have a strong incentive not to loose candidates and their commission.

The notion that accepting counteroffers is always hurtful to your career is contested to say the least: See this [1] HN discussion from about a month ago.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12624112

Can you give some examples for these non-fitting cases? It would be interesting to hear as a non-US citizen since this debate seems so cryptic to me.

You can: Assuming that Powerball simply collects all earnings and pays them to the winner (they don't and keep a share), simply regard your lottery ticket as your share and deposit the price you pay in your savings account.

Because just like with lotteries, there are a lot of blanks, few small wins and a tiny amount of never-work-again wins: Many startups don't net the investor much, some make quite a bit after being acquired, and very few - such as facebook - turn out to be really successfull.

Your phrasing suggests that you compare Facebook (now) with lottery as a system. You should rather see Facebook as a lottery ticket that turned out to be the jackpot.

From my personal experience, a good vs. a mediocre IDE can be the tipping point between really getting into developing or only doing it because you have to.

Of course CS students who come to university already programming and with a strong intrinsic desire will overcome difficulties regardless, but a good chunk of fellow students in business informatics/information systems were turned off by complicated setups and steep learning curves of IDEs and chose to steer clear of technical specializations.

> When [you are infected with ransomware], you can’t get to the data unless you pay a ransom. However this is not guaranteed and you should never pay!

What bothers me about their advice is that it is only correct macroeconomically. For your particular case it could be the best solution to just pay - as even police departments have done before.

It also ignores that it is in cybercriminals' best interest to let you decrypt after you paid: They need their victims to trust them, and they have nothing to gain from keeping the files encrypted after payment.

Let me human-translate the two relevant paragraphs for you:

> A tesla electric car with activated autopilot rear-ended a bus on the A24 motorway on Wednesday, as police reported on Thursday. Tesla could not confirm any details regarding the crash. Their cars feature extensive telemetry, so the manufacturer usually knows whether autopilot was enabled during an accident.

> The model S sedan rear-ended the Danish bus next to a service area when the bus returned to the right lane after overtaking. The 50 y/o driver was lightly injured. All 29 passengers of the bus remained unharmed.

Yes, but this does not diminish the value of the companies in the long term. Remember that index funds are an investment vehicle for decades, not months.